Saturday, August 18th
I understand clearly that through love alone can we become pleasing to God, and my sole ambition is to acquire it. – St. Therese
Friday, August 17th
Believe, daughter, that My Father gives greater trials to anyone whom He loves more; and love responds to these. How can I show you greater love than by desiring for you what I have desired for Myself? Behold these wounds, for your sufferings have never reached this point. Suffering is…
Thursday, August 16th
Finally, misguided joy in their own works “makes them incapable of taking counsel and of receiving reasonable instructions” about what they ought to do. “Such souls become very slack in charity toward God and neighbor for the self-love contained in their works makes them grow cold in charity.” – St.…
Wednesday, August 15th
Our created essence cries out to rejoin its Principle. The Word, the Splendour of the Father, is the eternal prototype on which creatures are designed on the day of their creation. That is why God wills that, having been freed from what is purely of self, we shall stretch out…
Tuesday, August 14th
Those who walk in the love of God seek neither their own gain nor their reward, but only to lose all things and themselves for God; and this loss they judge to be their gain. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, August 13th
Let him have a fixed determination not to allow himself to be beaten, for, if the devil sees that he has firmly resolved to lose his life and his peace and everything that he can offer him rather than to return to the first room, he will very soon cease…
Sunday, August 12th
Many of these beginners will make numerous plans and great resolutions, but since they are not humble and have no distrust of themselves, the more resolves they make the more they break, and the greater becomes their anger. – St. John of the Cross
Saturday, August 11th
They are too attached to their honor. . . . These souls, for the most part, grieve over anything said against them. They do not embrace the cross but drag it along, and so it hurts and wearies them and breaks them to pieces. However, if the cross is loved,…
Friday, August 10th
To obtain an answer to the requests we bear in our hearts, there is no better means than to concentrate the strength of our prayer upon what is more pleasing to God. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, August 9th
Would it be better, perhaps, to keep still about my needs, hoping You will provide the remedy for them? Certainly not; for You, my Lord and my delight, knowing the many needs there must be and the comfort it is for us to rely on You, tell us to ask…